South-Western Telegraph Company.

THE PUBLIC are notified, that in order to guard agains mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance ought to be repeated, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received, to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message, and while this Company will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceeding two hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated messages, from whatever cause they may arise, nor for delays arising from interruptions in the working of its Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination.

All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

N. GREEN, Pres't, Louisville, Ky.

[...]1861
By Telegraph from New Orleans Apl 26th 1861
To Gov. Beriah Magoffin

Have purchased two pieces heavy Ordnance two thousand muskets six hundred Kegs powder send transfer from some bank in Kentucky to some bank here placing thirty thousand dollars subject my order cannot negotiate exchange

Luke P. Blackburn

$340